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Khaled Galal Ahmed open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 A ‘Fareej-in-the-Sky’: Towards a Community-oriented Design... has received little concern on the part of the decision makers and designers. Some of the recent limited international design initiatives have proposed solutions for the community-relevant problems inherent in conventional high-rise residential buildings. Nonetheless, the problem remains in the inappropriateness of the direct implementation of these initiatives in the UAE without examining their compatibility with the specific local social and cultural contexts. The aim for this research is not to develop a specific design for community-oriented high-rise residential buildings in the UAE, but rather to highlight the concepts leading to realize this design. Consequently, the research proposes a seven-points theoretical framework composed of a blend of concepts built upon both the relevant lessons derived from these international initiatives and more importantly on the urban pattern of the traditional fareej as the smallest traditional urban housing element in the UAE that has been recently adopted in the official future planning visions in the country. These points include: the design for a mixed-use development, the design for social connectedness and integration, the design for security and privacy, the design for a high quality living environment, the design for user-responsive houses within the residential towers, and finally the residents’ involvement in the design and the management for the high-rise development. It is envisaged that applying the above-mentioned theoretical framework is going to help realize, albeit not perfectly, community-relevant considerations in the high-rise housing not only in the UAE but also in other neighbouring countries. After transforming this theoretical framework into some design alternatives for high-rise residential developments in the UAE, further research is needed for examining the acceptability of these applied design concepts through exploring the attitudes of the UAE local communities towards them. 6 8 R EF ERENCES 56 LEONARD STREET BUILDING 2010, 56 Leonard Street Building, Available online; http://56leonardtribeca.com, first accessed Mar. 3, 2010. ABU DHABI URBAN PLANNING COUNCIL 2009, Abu Dhabi Vision 2030: Neighbourhood Planning, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Abu Dhabi. ABU DHABI URBAN PLANNING COUNCIL 2010, Al Ain City 2030: Urban Structure Framework Plan, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Abu Dhabi. ARCHITECTURE PLUS 2009, Global Update: Stacked in the sky, Architecture Plus, No. 21, P:13. BAKER, J. 2010, Holl's Linked Hybrid, Architectureweek, No. 120, pp: D1.1- D1.3, Available online; http:\\www. architectureweek.com, first accessed Mar. 3, 2010. BALDWIN, A.N., SHEN, L.Y., POON, C.S., AUSTIN, S.A., and WONG I. 2008, Modelling design information to evaluate pre-fabricated and pre-cast design solutions for reducing construction waste in high rise residential buildings, Automation in Construction, No. 17, pp: 333–341. BOUW, T. 2004, High-Rise Housing In The Netherlands: Past, Present And Sustainability Outlook. Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Netherlands. Cambridge Dictionary (2011) Community, Available online; http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/community, first accessed Jan. 8, 2011. CELIK, Z. and AKBAR, J. 1991, Reviewed work: Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 111, No. 4, pp: 803–804. CIB W1 04 [International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, Working Commission W1 04] 2011, Open Building Implementation, Available online: http://www.open-building.org, first accessed on Feb. 16, 2011. DAVIDSON, J. 2008, One’s Huge, The other’s Crazy: A pair of showcase skyscrapers, New York, No. September 22, 2008, pp: 17-18.
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